Author discusses selected themes in the history of second-wave feminism in connection with Mormon feminism while focusing on the emergence of feminist groups, the discovery of history, and the double bind of identity politics where Mormon feminists...

Author discusses the importance of women's blogs in recent years. Especially to feminist Mormon women who discuss everything from the triumphs and challenges of motherhood to the conflicting ideals that feminism and Mormonism present. The author...

Program for the conference held at the Balch Auditorium on the Scripps College Campus, February 5, 2011.
The conference was sponsored by the Singer Foundation, LDS Council on Mormon Studies, Claremont School of Religion, Claremont Mormon Studies...

Sheila Taylor presents a paper that will examine the role of gender in the Latter-day Saints (LDS) understanding of salvation. In particular, she will look at what is involved in the redemption from the Fall, considering possible connections...

Kate Holbrook presents a paper that tells the stories of women she has known who have exercised a bishopric, including a British Relief Society president who led relief convoys into war zones, an Episcopalian priest's ministry to the homeless, and...

Caroline Kline presents a paper that discusses the ways feminist Mormon blog posts about Heavenly Mother manifest women's religious ambivalence. She finds that Mormon women on these blogs innovate in their religious practice and in their theology...

Feminist theologians and ethicists have long noted a tendency among women to self-sacrifice for their families. This paper analyzes anecdotes from The Mormon Women's Oral History Project, exploring themes of self-sacrifice, self-understanding, and...

A paper that draws upon an ethnography of a contemporary American LDS community and the work of Saba Mahmood to reconceptualize the feminist theoretical category of agency. Within the academic, feminist literature on traditional religious women,...

Mormon women often measure the success of their families and their own success as parents by their children's participation in the spiritual rite of passage known as the full time mission. This paper analyzes the narratives of women who...

Feminist theologians and ethicists have long noted a tendency among women to self-sacrifice for their families. This paper analyzes anecdotes from The Mormon Women's Oral History Project, exploring themes of self-sacrifice, self-understanding, and...

A paper that draws upon an ethnography of a contemporary American LDS community and the work of Saba Mahmood to reconceptualize the feminist theoretical category of agency. Within the academic, feminist literature on traditional religious women,...

Mormon women often measure the success of their families and their own success as parents by their children's participation in the spiritual rite of passage known as the full time mission. This paper analyzes the narratives of women who...